This always pisses me off. We make laws for idiots and then treat everyone like they are an idiot. I'm all for nailing people who cause accidents because they are talking on the phone. They should pay higher insurance and penalties. Now I have had a satellite phone and a cell phone (brief case model) for a very long time and have talked on that phone when I could afford the attention to do so. Now the law says that I'm prevented from doing so because some people can't handle it. I reject that notion and I reject the notion that any government has any authority to tell me that I can't. It's a race to the bottom people. Some people can't walk down the street without helmets.. should we all be forced to wear pedestrian helmets? (It'll save lives and please won't you think of the children) Some people can't handle alcohol..should we all be prevented from drinking.(that idea worked out well) Some people stab people..should we all lose our kitchen knives? The idea that everyone should live under the same law is a ridiculous notion and one of the many fallacies causing the fall of western culture. The fact is that everyone has an inherent RIGHT to make their own choices. Those who abuse this right and harm other people should be dealt with harshly. The law has no other rightful authority.
Unfortunately the world is run by people who are so stupid and dense they actually have to pay people to supplement their pathetic learning skills. Universities and Colleges prey upon these hapless halfwits, take all their money and give them pieces of paper that can replace having actual job skills or a brain. They aren't so good at giving out hearts, courage or rides home but the principal is the same. Since most people in senior management have suffered this type of learning disability their whole lives they can't even imagine someone capable of learning on their own. They will never trust this strange power some people seem to have to read documentation, play around with things and gain new skills. Now a person like me with no credentials at all (except some product courses) has to wait until one of these mental defectives screws up really badly and management has to bring me in to fix the mess. Then I get my chance to show my superior skills. All this would have been much easier if I had a magic piece of paper because the first person I have to get past is usually an HR person and they are very rarely capable of understanding most of what's on my resume. I generally don't even see resumes without degrees when I'm doing my hiring because the HR moron strains them out. Even though I'm biased against people who wasted all that time and money in school I rarely hire someone without those credentials.
I should also mention that it's a crappy job. Best case scenario you end up working for some scum bag corporation like me and being part of the problem with this world. You can be a consultant but then you spend all your time selling garbage..usually this is self promotion. The idiot who fucked up the systems in the first place usually makes more money than I do for fixing their mess.
The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. -Professor Marshall McLuhan
They do give different deals to different people. Price isn't too important in their market position. The main reason that Open Source Vendors have trouble competing is that if I hire HP for a solution and it sucks then HP screwed the company and you switch vendors. If I hire some Open Source vendor and they suck then I get fired for not having gone with HP or IBM or Microsoft.
I went to Carleton.
A.K.A. Hogs Back High( it's on the Hog's back river) A.K.A. Cartoon U. A.K.A. Last chance U.
I dropped out in disgust with great marks. I wouldn't waste my money on these useless idiots. They really don't do very much right. Their computer science program is a sick joke as is their highly rated journalism school.
If you want to start an interview off with a laugh then just tell someone you have a degree from Carleton.
They probably have a little more prestige than a mail order school..but I wouldn't count on it.
The US is well known the world over for wiping its ass with the Geneva convention. Just like in everything else the US thinks it's above following the rules.
BTW how's thinking you're above the rules of economics working out for you?
I've actually had to resort to extreme measures and actually produce intelligible documentation.
If you are using a computer properly then THE COMPUTER stores the data not your brain. Besides about 1/3 of the information I know will be obsolete anyway within 5 years.
The young guys who try to stick all that garbage in their brain come to me when they need to know something they can't remember or aren't sure of.
Bullying is only half the problem. It's the people that defend bullies that are just as bad and seen as "reasonable" or "civilized". Look at all the Zero tolerance policies in schools that treat a person exercising their inherent right to defend themselves like some kind of criminal. As far as I'm concerned if someone puts your well being at risk then they've forfeit their own. The fact is that the government doesn't want to encourage people to stand up for themselves against bullies because they know they'd be swinging from a rope pretty fast if real justice got a foothold.
A lot of it comes down to animalistic instinct. Alpha males in our society are still highly rewarded with more women and money rather than being quarantined like the disease they are. Until we cure this tendancy in our culture we'll never rise above being stupid naked apes.
The really bad part about democracy is that there are more stupid people than smart. So democracy the way it is turns in to mob rule by idiots and the parasites that feed off the chaos at all our expense. Our last election had record low turn out because there was not a single worthy candidate. The socialist party leader Layton seems like the only one that has his heart in the right place but I wouldn't want to hand him my checkbook. Particularly at a time when greedy US corporations have screwed over the entire world(again). I think they should set a minimum turn out for elections and if barely everyone votes then all candidates are disqualified. The article just points out that we live in a police state and not a free country. The job of the law should not be to run people's lives or make their decisions.
I don't think that the Snowmobilers Association of Nova Scotia can really help you with this.
In all seriousness if you try and do this with corporate policy then you have to monitor compliance. Then you have to deal with disciplinary issues and I can guarentee that the worst offenders will be higherups who will be immune from the disciplinary measures they so richly deserve. SANS basicly means that if your system doesn't pass certain "checks" you define then it will not allow a real connection to the network. You can check if virus definitions are up to date (a good one to have). You can check for critical security patches. You can even specify the existance of certain files to stop access in the event of a particular infection.
The problem is that when most people hear a siren they freeze. It's the same as in the military. When the explosions start most people freeze. Even with trained troops a large percentage act like a deer in the headlights. It's as instinctual as with the deer and it's a halmark of a lot of social animals. Personally I would use a recording of an authoritative voice and flashing spotlights designed to shine on individual cars in the way.
"Still... the part I've always stalled at is the malevolent/shadowy conspiracy group. The government is just a bunch of people, not a movie-villain-esque secret society or cult. Until there's clear evidence that they intend to do evil with their ill-gotten power I'm less worried than I would otherwise be."
Yeah I'm not into the shadowy conspiracy when there is so much malevolence in plain view. I don't really believe that oil execs have to meet in dark smoky room to all be on the same page against and against us. We force execs in corporations to sign contracts that compel them to grow their business with no regard to employees, their country or anything else except the best interest of the stockholders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry Fairly benign by conspiracy standards but they do regularly use influence to gain special advantage. You don't think they put those symbols on their cars because they get more tickets do you? They also believe in the rule of law over justice and are therefore the enemy of people who believe in righteousness and justice over rule books written by the rich. The Shriners are part of this and they do do a lot of good. They also founded the USA. (the jury is still out if that's mark for or against them).
So with all these scum fuck organizations trying to force us to live by their rules I think a genuine shadowy conspiracy would have serious trouble finding members.
True..but it's better than Linux. Taking into consideration the installed base of both OSes Linux is kicking windoze ass. In terms of real numbers windows trounces Linux.
He would have been denied employment without signing away his rights. If by construct you are forced to sign away rights I would say it was done under duress and any agreement that says you can't work in your field is unconscionable. All these invisible hand of the market assholes should shut the hell up and let the companies suffer real competition for skilled workers. You don't want your employees to go to the competition then treat them better, pay them better or go out of business. I would remove all anticompetitive advantages for companies over workers such as poaching legislation. Give the companies a hot throbbing assload of open market for a change.
Maybe companies shouldn't be allowed to buy people's souls.
Well a stitch in time saves 9 is the old saying. That would make 89% reduced wastage. Sure it's a fictitious number but almost all business metrics are made up numbers.
In reality there are some metrics on how often outsourcing fails..they were in the mid 80s last time I checked.
Another idea would be to bring in IBM to do this analysis for you..they are happy to do it for you at a cheap price and you get some really neat charts and crap for the management types to jerk off to. When they are done the analysis the answer is always the same.. YOU NEED TO GIVE US MORE MONEY. Once they see how they would be treated by a company like IBM and how much money they would want for their piss poor service then the management types will shut their idiot mouths and let you do your job.
The point is that once it's no longer a selective process then they have data to mine. They already have voice stress analyzers that could select certain calls. They already have basic voice recognition that could select a few more. It's this kind of dredging through people's personal lives that separate a police state from a free country. This is precisely why free countries limit themselves from unreasonable search. We used to pity the Soviets and the Chinese for living under this kind of constant surveillance. We used to see the totalitarian monitoring they submitted to and had a sense of moral superiority. The arrogant attitude has remained but any lofty ideals have been stolen away by dangerous con men in places of power. When they invent better technology to see through walls should they just get to drive up and down the street checking up on people? Morally this action is no different.
As far as supporting more devices I would remove all the devices from that list where Linux does a half assed crippled implementation.
If I have to compile anything to get a device to work then FAIL it is not properly supported.
As far as all this Linux software goes..well most of it is crap that should never have seen the light of day. In terms of reasonable quality software there isn't very much decent software for linux and I can get all of it on windoze. It'll be easier to install, support and use on windows.
I didn't want to say nice things about windows..but you Linux people really do work very hard at deluding yourselves.
Just more proof that the legal system abuses the psychologically screwed up. Why give him medical treatment for a disease when you can just warehouse him and use him for prison labor. Then they call it a justice system. Lady justice is blind..but she's also stupid and a real malicious bitch.
Hey emacs has a psychotherapy module ELIZA. This beats out windows solitaire and makes *nix the official operating system of getting nothing productive accomplished. I'm no fan of windoze but if I needed a person to sit around, play with his kernel, take twice as long to make a half assed connection to the exchange box or screw with samba for hours, I'd go with a Linux person. Fortunately/. is multiplatform and there is no excuse for anyone in IT to ever get any work done again.
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This always pisses me off. We make laws for idiots and then treat everyone like they are an idiot. .. should we all be forced to wear pedestrian helmets? ..should we all lose our kitchen knives?
I'm all for nailing people who cause accidents because they are talking on the phone. They should pay higher insurance and penalties.
Now I have had a satellite phone and a cell phone (brief case model) for a very long time and have talked on that phone when I could afford the attention to do so. Now the law says that I'm prevented from doing so because some people can't handle it.
I reject that notion and I reject the notion that any government has any authority to tell me that I can't.
It's a race to the bottom people. Some people can't walk down the street without helmets
(It'll save lives and please won't you think of the children)
Some people can't handle alcohol..should we all be prevented from drinking.(that idea worked out well)
Some people stab people
The idea that everyone should live under the same law is a ridiculous notion and one of the many fallacies causing the fall of western culture.
The fact is that everyone has an inherent RIGHT to make their own choices. Those who abuse this right and harm other people should be dealt with harshly. The law has no other rightful authority.
I heard that several terrorist have already used bit torrent to transfer files.
They also use Word so we should ban that too.
Unfortunately the world is run by people who are so stupid and dense they actually have to pay people to supplement their pathetic learning skills. Universities and Colleges prey upon these hapless halfwits, take all their money and give them pieces of paper that can replace having actual job skills or a brain. They aren't so good at giving out hearts, courage or rides home but the principal is the same.
Since most people in senior management have suffered this type of learning disability their whole lives they can't even imagine someone capable of learning on their own. They will never trust this strange power some people seem to have to read documentation, play around with things and gain new skills.
Now a person like me with no credentials at all (except some product courses) has to wait until one of these mental defectives screws up really badly and management has to bring me in to fix the mess. Then I get my chance to show my superior skills.
All this would have been much easier if I had a magic piece of paper because the first person I have to get past is usually an HR person and they are very rarely capable of understanding most of what's on my resume. I generally don't even see resumes without degrees when I'm doing my hiring because the HR moron strains them out. Even though I'm biased against people who wasted all that time and money in school I rarely hire someone without those credentials.
I should also mention that it's a crappy job. Best case scenario you end up working for some scum bag corporation like me and being part of the problem with this world. You can be a consultant but then you spend all your time selling garbage..usually this is self promotion.
The idiot who fucked up the systems in the first place usually makes more money than I do for fixing their mess.
The school system, custodian of print culture, has no place for the rugged individual. It is, indeed, the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing. -Professor Marshall McLuhan
The US has repeatedly mined unmarked areas of Iraq by helicopter.
FACT
I made it out of some christmas lights and and old Delorean.
Does it do anything..well not really.
They do give different deals to different people. Price isn't too important in their market position. The main reason that Open Source Vendors have trouble competing is that if I hire HP for a solution and it sucks then HP screwed the company and you switch vendors. If I hire some Open Source vendor and they suck then I get fired for not having gone with HP or IBM or Microsoft.
I went to Carleton. A.K.A. Hogs Back High( it's on the Hog's back river) A.K.A. Cartoon U. A.K.A. Last chance U. I dropped out in disgust with great marks. I wouldn't waste my money on these useless idiots. They really don't do very much right. Their computer science program is a sick joke as is their highly rated journalism school. If you want to start an interview off with a laugh then just tell someone you have a degree from Carleton. They probably have a little more prestige than a mail order school..but I wouldn't count on it.
The US is well known the world over for wiping its ass with the Geneva convention.
Just like in everything else the US thinks it's above following the rules.
BTW how's thinking you're above the rules of economics working out for you?
I wonder if brains are considered a renewable energy source?
I think if you used a good branding iron to label these people as bad it might be more productive.
I don't want these people to have a happy life. I want to live in a society free from those who would take my fundimental rights to free expression.
I consider these people enemies of freedom more than any goat herder in Iraq.
Absolutely it would be nice to see someone held accountable for disgusting abuses of the Legal system.
I've actually had to resort to extreme measures and actually produce intelligible documentation.
If you are using a computer properly then THE COMPUTER stores the data not your brain.
Besides about 1/3 of the information I know will be obsolete anyway within 5 years.
The young guys who try to stick all that garbage in their brain come to me when they need to know something they can't remember or aren't sure of.
It'll be even better when they implement DRM on that platform.
ZAP..not allowed to think that anymore.
Bullying is only half the problem.
It's the people that defend bullies that are just as bad and seen as "reasonable" or "civilized".
Look at all the Zero tolerance policies in schools that treat a person exercising their inherent right to defend themselves like some kind of criminal.
As far as I'm concerned if someone puts your well being at risk then they've forfeit their own.
The fact is that the government doesn't want to encourage people to stand up for themselves against bullies because they know they'd be swinging from a rope pretty fast if real justice got a foothold.
A lot of it comes down to animalistic instinct. Alpha males in our society are still highly rewarded with more women and money rather than being quarantined like the disease they are. Until we cure this tendancy in our culture we'll never rise above being stupid naked apes.
The really bad part about democracy is that there are more stupid people than smart. So democracy the way it is turns in to mob rule by idiots and the parasites that feed off the chaos at all our expense. Our last election had record low turn out because there was not a single worthy candidate. The socialist party leader Layton seems like the only one that has his heart in the right place but I wouldn't want to hand him my checkbook. Particularly at a time when greedy US corporations have screwed over the entire world(again).
I think they should set a minimum turn out for elections and if barely everyone votes then all candidates are disqualified.
The article just points out that we live in a police state and not a free country. The job of the law should not be to run people's lives or make their decisions.
I don't think that the Snowmobilers Association of Nova Scotia can really help you with this.
In all seriousness if you try and do this with corporate policy then you have to monitor compliance. Then you have to deal with disciplinary issues and I can guarentee that the worst offenders will be higherups who will be immune from the disciplinary measures they so richly deserve. SANS basicly means that if your system doesn't pass certain "checks" you define then it will not allow a real connection to the network. You can check if virus definitions are up to date (a good one to have). You can check for critical security patches. You can even specify the existance of certain files to stop access in the event of a particular infection.
The problem is that when most people hear a siren they freeze. It's the same as in the military. When the explosions start most people freeze. Even with trained troops a large percentage act like a deer in the headlights. It's as instinctual as with the deer and it's a halmark of a lot of social animals. Personally I would use a recording of an authoritative voice and flashing spotlights designed to shine on individual cars in the way.
"Still... the part I've always stalled at is the malevolent/shadowy conspiracy group. The government is just a bunch of people, not a movie-villain-esque secret society or cult. Until there's clear evidence that they intend to do evil with their ill-gotten power I'm less worried than I would otherwise be."
Yeah I'm not into the shadowy conspiracy when there is so much malevolence in plain view.
I don't really believe that oil execs have to meet in dark smoky room to all be on the same page against and against us. We force execs in corporations to sign contracts that compel them to grow their business with no regard to employees, their country or anything else except the best interest of the stockholders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY
Not so much a conspiracy as a vast group of powerful sociopaths whos interests conflict with every person of conscience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
If you're not American this is a wide open fascist conspiracy and I would love to see people executed over this one. In the good ol' days they hung people for this crap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group
This scum regularly thumbs its nose at international law with their illegal secret meetings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_grove
Oh come on naked pagan rituals and a frigging owl god?!?! I couldn't dream this up even with my best tin foil hat on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry
Fairly benign by conspiracy standards but they do regularly use influence to gain special advantage. You don't think they put those symbols on their cars because they get more tickets do you?
They also believe in the rule of law over justice and are therefore the enemy of people who believe in righteousness and justice over rule books written by the rich. The Shriners are part of this and they do do a lot of good. They also founded the USA. (the jury is still out if that's mark for or against them).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology
Wonderful people..I would never say anything bad about them..not wanting to be sued or killed.
So with all these scum fuck organizations trying to force us to live by their rules I think a genuine shadowy conspiracy would have serious trouble finding members.
True..but it's better than Linux.
Taking into consideration the installed base of both OSes Linux is kicking windoze ass. In terms of real numbers windows trounces Linux.
He would have been denied employment without signing away his rights.
If by construct you are forced to sign away rights I would say it was done under duress and any agreement that says you can't work in your field is unconscionable.
All these invisible hand of the market assholes should shut the hell up and let the companies suffer real competition for skilled workers. You don't want your employees to go to the competition then treat them better, pay them better or go out of business.
I would remove all anticompetitive advantages for companies over workers such as poaching legislation. Give the companies a hot throbbing assload of open market for a change.
Maybe companies shouldn't be allowed to buy people's souls.
Well a stitch in time saves 9 is the old saying.
That would make 89% reduced wastage.
Sure it's a fictitious number but almost all business metrics are made up numbers.
In reality there are some metrics on how often outsourcing fails..they were in the mid 80s last time I checked.
Another idea would be to bring in IBM to do this analysis for you..they are happy to do it for you at a cheap price and you get some really neat charts and crap for the management types to jerk off to. When they are done the analysis the answer is always the same .. YOU NEED TO GIVE US MORE MONEY. Once they see how they would be treated by a company like IBM and how much money they would want for their piss poor service then the management types will shut their idiot mouths and let you do your job.
The point is that once it's no longer a selective process then they have data to mine. They already have voice stress analyzers that could select certain calls. They already have basic voice recognition that could select a few more. It's this kind of dredging through people's personal lives that separate a police state from a free country. This is precisely why free countries limit themselves from unreasonable search. We used to pity the Soviets and the Chinese for living under this kind of constant surveillance. We used to see the totalitarian monitoring they submitted to and had a sense of moral superiority. The arrogant attitude has remained but any lofty ideals have been stolen away by dangerous con men in places of power. When they invent better technology to see through walls should they just get to drive up and down the street checking up on people? Morally this action is no different.
As far as supporting more devices I would remove all the devices from that list where Linux does a half assed crippled implementation.
If I have to compile anything to get a device to work then FAIL it is not properly supported.
As far as all this Linux software goes..well most of it is crap that should never have seen the light of day. In terms of reasonable quality software there isn't very much decent software for linux and I can get all of it on windoze. It'll be easier to install, support and use on windows.
I didn't want to say nice things about windows..but you Linux people really do work very hard at deluding yourselves.
Just more proof that the legal system abuses the psychologically screwed up.
Why give him medical treatment for a disease when you can just warehouse him and use him for prison labor.
Then they call it a justice system.
Lady justice is blind..but she's also stupid and a real malicious bitch.
Hey emacs has a psychotherapy module ELIZA. /. is multiplatform and there is no excuse for anyone in IT to ever get any work done again.
This beats out windows solitaire and makes *nix the official operating system of getting nothing productive accomplished.
I'm no fan of windoze but if I needed a person to sit around, play with his kernel, take twice as long to make a half assed connection to the exchange box or screw with samba for hours, I'd go with a Linux person.
Fortunately